[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-1"]What an imbecile. The only comment *you* are capable of making in
reply to a perfectly reasonable remark that a poem is well-done is to
make a noise. Did you learn to spell it by watching the Simpsons every
day or did someone tell you how to?

Innocent 2007-09-16 23:49:18

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-2"]You mean like the English, most mongrelized folks on the planet?
--
The Innocent
"One is a genius, the other insane."

Madra dubh 2007-09-17 18:59:00

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-3"]A grand example of the poetic arts.
Perfect in meter, form and rhyme.
And the satire is exquisite.
This could only have been penned by a native born Irishman, perhaps one of
the nine Brens.
It certainly was not the work of that lame group of would be poets huddling
together over there on rec.arts.poems for mutual support and sympathy.
Hackers all, they are, and an insult to true poets everywhere.
Further, I hear the lot of them are Merkins.
One would think.....................
-Conway

Madra dubh 2007-09-17 18:59:05

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-4"]Are you that familiar with the man's nether parts then?
-Conway

Duke of url 2007-09-17 18:59:08

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-5"]Ta dear. For that kind word, I will forgive you what you said the
other day.
BTW: Having just happened to look in the bathroom mirror, I note that
I *am* extremely pink, shading into red in areas. I should have used
sunblock when I was outside moving things a day or 2 ago.

Madra dubh 2007-09-17 18:59:11

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-6"]Here, here, Mose.
Though your cogent arguments are lost on this crowd.
-Conway

Madra dubh 2007-09-17 18:59:14

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-7"]Nah, he's from Nebraska. They are more the color of corn ripening in the
fields.
They hates Grits too.
-Conway

Madra dubh 2007-09-17 18:59:17

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-8"]So............
Not only are you against the poor Irish, you denigrate flatulence as well?
See if I ask you to be my caravan guide.
-Conway

Innocent 2007-09-17 18:59:19

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-9"]I have never dundant in my life, let alone twice. How dare you!
--
The Innocent
"One is a genius, the other insane."

Innocent 2007-09-17 18:59:21

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-10"]One of the Christian Brothers, are you. And they call the English shirt
lifters. English can't hold a tail to the Irish.
--
The Innocent
"One is a genius, the other insane."

——————————————————————
“A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one
Of sprites and goblins.”
——————————————————————

S im mac liam 2007-09-18 14:06:36

Get a room, ffs.

—
Saint S im mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December ’99

Duke of url 2007-09-19 00:26:50

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-13"]Probably because all those Ershmen on their tiny little insignificant
island have been intermarrying for centuries. All the smart ones got
the h*** out to other countries.

Duke of url 2007-09-19 00:26:51

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-14"]??? Never been green in my life, if you don't count the use of camo-grease.
Thank you. It's about time you recognized our superiority.;

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-18"]Are you getting the feeling we are just talking to ourselves?
Methinks our reputation precedes us.

Madra dubh 2007-09-20 07:57:37

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-19"]Not without getting it drilled.

Madra dubh 2007-09-20 07:57:39

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-20"]When we discovered the vast wasteland that is your little collection of
wannabes.

Madra dubh 2007-09-20 07:57:40

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-21"]Are you sure about the spelling of that?

Madra dubh 2007-09-20 07:57:42

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-22"]So now you are off on yet another Irish icon?
I'll bet your Hazelnut groves have a "No Irishman need apply" sign posted.

Madra dubh 2007-09-20 07:57:45

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-23"]I'm not sure.
Check his profile.
If he has no chin, he's *nglish.

Central cpu 2007-09-20 07:57:49

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-24"] No, I've lost contact with my Irish roots. My parents died years ago
(from lung cancer, from liver cancer) and I don't know what happened to the
sheet music, recordings, notebooks and all. That spelling is from
Webster's. The last I heard the old songs was when Jim McKay sang "The Same
Old Shillalagh [Shillaleigh?]" on an ABC Sports program, an Olympics
coverage I believe, whence perhaps, the international cultural festivities.
--CCPU

please! he has a drum bigger than his own car, and he’s enslaved two Catholic
boys from Armagh just to help him carry it around during marching season.

also, every January 15th he has the “Burn Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins in
effigy” event in his backyard.

not to mention the “Edward Carson Lives” bumber sticker on the back of his car.

he’s so Orange he makes Randolph Churchill look like a Fenian.

j r sherman

——————————————————————
“A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one
Of sprites and goblins.”
——————————————————————

Madra dubh 2007-09-21 19:51:13

I was being durty and referring to the word “Pass”.

Madra dubh 2007-09-22 05:55:51

Unless it be in the Gaelic.

Madra dubh 2007-09-22 16:54:46

I know but we are dealing with outsiders here.

Madra dubh 2007-09-22 16:54:51

To borrow and modify a phrase The Highlander once used
“You have the stench of iodine about ye”
(Not you, James, that is a generic “You”)

Madra dubh 2007-09-22 16:54:57

Erm, a somewhat larger ball than that.
Something about Unki sized.

Madra dubh 2007-09-28 05:36:57

Hark!
Here that!
The sound of Mose’s stock falling.

Macrobert 2007-09-28 13:38:55

On 1 Aug 2003 21:46:55 GMT, “S im mac Liam”

chaws.

MacR

Madra dubh 2007-09-28 13:39:13

Spats

Duke of url 2007-09-28 23:01:26

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-40"]Well, work on your aim - you aren't supposed to spit on your spats.
I have a question. Why is this thread involving rec.art.poems?

Macrobert 2007-09-28 23:01:31

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-41"]Oh, I found a dandy mix in Kaintuck entirely by accident. I was
scheduled to fly river patrol with a guy reputed to smoke the nastiest
stogies this side of H*lls supherous doorstep so in self defence I
stopped off at a tobacco shop on the way to the airfield. Grabbed a
couple ounces of black burley at random and had nothing but
compliments for weeks! That stuff about pipes being more deadly flys
against reason when one is smoking real tobacco and not all the
sprays, enhancers and flavours added to cigarettes.
Stephen

Madra dubh 2007-09-28 23:01:33

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-42"]No.
When I smoked, I usually bought a bag of the one and a bag of the other and
mixed me own.
I can't even remember the mail order outfit I traded with but they made
great pipes and had every kind of tobacco there was.
Their pipes all had very thick bowls.
And they had umpteen different styles.

Duke of url 2007-10-05 04:32:49

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-43"]Grroooaannn...

Rick 2007-10-06 07:09:29

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-44"] I dunno. The wimmin folks really like them mirrors.

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-49"]What an imbecile. The only comment *you* are capable of making in
reply to a perfectly reasonable remark that a poem is well-done is to
make a noise. Did you learn to spell it by watching the Simpsons every
day or did someone tell you how to?

Duke of url 2007-11-16 04:47:13

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-50"]All those racist s**** are b******* buds.
They have absolutely no understanding of much of anything, but
evolution/genetics is totally beyond their comprehension. The only
good bloodlines in ANY critter including H*** Sapiens are the
crossbreeds, the mongrels, the "race betrayers" as people like Diarmid
call them. Purebred = Inbred = Defective

Innocent 2007-11-16 04:47:15

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-51"]No, by listening to the mindless flatulent flutterings of your bog
ignorant Oirish hole.
--
The Innocent
"One is a genius, the other insane."

Innocent 2007-11-16 04:47:15

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-52"]You mean like the English, most mongrelized folks on the planet?
--
The Innocent
"One is a genius, the other insane."

James silverto 2007-11-16 04:47:17

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-53"]I am a mongrel with pretty well established ancestry from all the *races* of
the Isles and, IMO (not humble at all), racial purity is a myth believed in
only by people on the level of the great Ilk from Alabama.
--
James V. Silverton
Potomac, Maryland, USA

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-55"]No, they're not. They're inbred to the point of mutation.
You're no one of thhose pinko commie
He might be a nice shade of pink, for all I know, but he certainly isn't
either of those other two things.
Ann

Duke of url 2007-11-16 18:14:55

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-56"]You're being redundant.

Madra dubh 2007-11-16 18:14:57

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-57"]A grand example of the poetic arts.
Perfect in meter, form and rhyme.
And the satire is exquisite.
This could only have been penned by a native born Irishman, perhaps one of
the nine Brens.
It certainly was not the work of that lame group of would be poets huddling
together over there on rec.arts.poems for mutual support and sympathy.
Hackers all, they are, and an insult to true poets everywhere.
Further, I hear the lot of them are Merkins.
One would think.....................
-Conway

Madra dubh 2007-11-16 18:15:02

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-58"]Are you that familiar with the man's nether parts then?
-Conway

Duke of url 2007-11-16 18:15:05

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-59"]Ta dear. For that kind word, I will forgive you what you said the
other day.
BTW: Having just happened to look in the bathroom mirror, I note that
I *am* extremely pink, shading into red in areas. I should have used
sunblock when I was outside moving things a day or 2 ago.

Madra dubh 2007-11-16 18:15:08

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-60"]Here, here, Mose.
Though your cogent arguments are lost on this crowd.
-Conway

Madra dubh 2007-11-16 18:15:09

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-61"]Nah, he's from Nebraska. They are more the color of corn ripening in the
fields.
They hates Grits too.
-Conway

Madra dubh 2007-11-16 18:15:15

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-62"]So............
Not only are you against the poor Irish, you denigrate flatulence as well?
See if I ask you to be my caravan guide.
-Conway

Madra dubh 2007-11-16 18:15:18

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-63"]As are we all, James V. Silverton of Potomac, Maryland, USA
As are we all.

Innocent 2007-11-17 07:38:38

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-64"]I have never dundant in my life, let alone twice. How dare you!
--
The Innocent
"One is a genius, the other insane."

Innocent 2007-11-17 07:38:39

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-65"]One of the Christian Brothers, are you. And they call the English shirt
lifters. English can't hold a tail to the Irish.
--
The Innocent
"One is a genius, the other insane."

—
Saint S im mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December ’99

Duke of url 2007-11-18 12:19:55

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-69"]Sigh. No hope. Never had a tan in my life. I get lots of freckles,
then I burn between them. Even in the Tropics, all I could manage was
to get burnt.

Duke of url 2007-11-18 12:19:57

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-70"]SOME people have durty minds...

Duke of url 2007-11-18 12:20:01

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-71"]Probably because all those Ershmen on their tiny little insignificant
island have been intermarrying for centuries. All the smart ones got
the h*** out to other countries.

Duke of url 2007-11-19 04:40:11

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-72"]??? Never been green in my life, if you don't count the use of camo-grease.
Thank you. It's about time you recognized our superiority.;

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-76"]Are you saying Jackeen are scum? Is that what you're saying? How many
of these 'nieces' do you have? Do they give you money and other gifts?
Do you drive a tricked out Mark VII? Wear a big floppy hat? Yaller
shoes?
--
The Innocent
"One is a genius, the other insane."

Madra dubh 2007-11-19 13:52:29

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-77"]Step out to a nearby corn field during the Autumn and notice the color of
the shucks and leaves.
(I can't believe a man what live in Nebraskia doesn't know the color of ripening corn)
Oh?
At least my air conditioner works.
What about them apples, Mister Superior?

Madra dubh 2007-11-19 13:52:32

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-78"]Are you getting the feeling we are just talking to ourselves?
Methinks our reputation precedes us.

Madra dubh 2007-11-19 13:52:33

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-79"]Not without getting it drilled.

Madra dubh 2007-11-20 05:49:34

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-80"]When we discovered the vast wasteland that is your little collection of
wannabes.

Madra dubh 2007-11-20 05:49:38

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-81"]Are you sure about the spelling of that?

Madra dubh 2007-11-20 05:49:39

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-82"]So now you are off on yet another Irish icon?
I'll bet your Hazelnut groves have a "No Irishman need apply" sign posted.

Madra dubh 2007-11-20 05:49:39

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-83"]I'm not sure.
Check his profile.
If he has no chin, he's *nglish.

Central cpu 2007-11-20 05:50:03

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-84"] No, I've lost contact with my Irish roots. My parents died years ago
(from lung cancer, from liver cancer) and I don't know what happened to the
sheet music, recordings, notebooks and all. That spelling is from
Webster's. The last I heard the old songs was when Jim McKay sang "The Same
Old Shillalagh [Shillaleigh?]" on an ABC Sports program, an Olympics
coverage I believe, whence perhaps, the international cultural festivities.
--CCPU

Chucklysaght 2007-11-20 05:50:04

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-85"]You're a racist, j r.

Renay st. jame 2007-11-20 05:50:06

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-86"]*****is it the Florida sun, Chuckles, or are you always so Orange?
Renay

Texas max king 2007-11-20 21:17:19

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-87"] . . . now this one is the winner, Renay.
the line that won the 'tommie/tammie loves chuckie lying' contest.
we all know the reason chuckie rides a yellow bike
is because his foster parents were from the Orient.
His distant cousin is a black, gay guy . . .
and he has a sister married to a lesbian
with a veil. We also think in one of his family
tree inbreedings, they've discovered genetic mutations
that possibly resemble bright red organisms
with high black boots and a sickle birthmark
on their upper lip.
A species that is quarantined to this day.
-Max (. . . at the guantanamo vacation resort)

Russj41 2007-11-20 21:17:23

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-88"]Duke, you have to remember that Madra never actually sees the corn grow.
One of his cousins (twice removed) grows it down in the river bottoms, and
another cousin (thrice removed) hauls it up the hollar to the still. By the
time it gets to Madra, it's ready for mash.
MacHamish M r

—
Saint S im mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December ’99

Russj41 2007-11-21 23:26:06

You mean to say he sashays down the Garvaghy beating his lambeg in full view
of the public? Tsk.

MacHamish M r

S im mac liam 2007-11-21 23:26:11

Oh, jays, sure and isn’t it a sad thing when yez tan to a foine shade of
fish-belly white?

—
Saint S im mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December ’99

Madra dubh 2007-11-22 18:47:34

Unless it be in the Gaelic.

Madra dubh 2007-11-23 07:07:27

Not at all.
Their relatives in Americkay wrote back about this great orange ball in the
sky what gives out extraordinary amounts of heat and light.
They all hastened over to view the phenomenon for themselves.

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-105"]Sworn off, my eye. MacRobert snatched it out of your hand so fast you
probably have friction burns, after you insulted the Tallisker.
--
Saint S im mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99

S im mac liam 2007-11-28 17:23:09

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-106"]I don't wait years. I get drunk about twice a year to remind myself why
I don't do that.
--
Saint S im mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99

Madra dubh 2007-11-30 03:04:05

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-107"]You must enjoy rather mild hangovers.
Mine were Stephen King horrors.

Jim stewart 2007-11-30 14:24:46

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-108"]Its the nachos and cheese dip that add the ozs.
Jim Stewart

Must take a note of that !
“In advanced years, one’s tolerance to alcohol is reduced”

Three Days ???

What were you drinking ?

T*l*sk*r or Caine’s Elixir ?

— The Despicable Stewart
— Perfidious Alban

Madra dubh 2007-12-05 09:07:02

Ian, you are dead on right.
Tolerance to alcohol does decrease with age.

Rick 2007-12-12 13:28:00

They’re *lame*?
Jaysus, Conway!
You shouldn’t make fun of lame people… I had a limp meownself onect. It ain’t
easy getting around with a limp.
“Half a step, half a step, half a step on…
Stairs to the left of them, stairs to the right.
And never an elevator or escalator.
Nary a one in sight….”

Let’s see…poem for rec.arts.poems.
Conway for s.c.s.
Oirish Subject header for s.c.i….
Should we include soc.culture.USA for the Merkins?
And are those hackers as in cabdrivers, computer intruders, or bad writers?
What the hey! Let’s include alt. computers and taxis for the heck of it….
“Cry Havoc!”….

Innocent 2007-12-13 03:32:49

Don’t forget to lend an evil aspect to the eye.

—
The Innocent
“One is a genius, the other insane.”

Madra dubh 2007-12-14 06:08:43

,

Did not!
The amber landed square on his picture which I keep about the house for just
such a purpose.

Madra dubh 2007-12-14 06:08:43

Hark!
Here that!
The sound of Mose’s stock falling.

S im mac liam 2007-12-14 06:08:47

He chews.

—
Saint S im mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December ’99

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-123"]I have visions of Hercule Poirot!
Really?
I never thought him all that attractive.

Madra dubh 2007-12-16 23:53:44

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-124"]There were lots more in the long, long ago.
Many Cherokee gathered up near Chattanooga, trying to escape the Anglo
onslaught.
The Cherokee made life most interesting for those settlers and river men
traveling down the Tennessee River.
(Have I told this story already? So hard to remember these days)

Madra dubh 2007-12-17 12:31:51

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-125"]I tried pipes for a while before settling on snuff.
The some fool put another article in the paper claiming that pipe and cigar
smoke is even more deadly than cigarettes.
I do fondly remember my favorite mix.
It was half Latikia (sp) and half rough cut burley.
Oh my, that was a smoke.

Duke of url 2007-12-17 12:31:58

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-126"]So they used you to poke up the fire?

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-131"]Well, the truth too be told, I was thinking of a willow branch.
Lithe and limber and pliable and all that.

Madra dubh 2007-12-18 16:18:08

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-132"]I hear the problem is that most pipe smokers inhale and that foul stuff
which oozes out of the stem is deadly.
But the way the "experts" bend the truth these days, who knows?

Madra dubh 2007-12-18 16:18:19

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-133"]No.
When I smoked, I usually bought a bag of the one and a bag of the other and
mixed me own.
I can't even remember the mail order outfit I traded with but they made
great pipes and had every kind of tobacco there was.
Their pipes all had very thick bowls.
And they had umpteen different styles.

Macrobert 2007-12-18 16:18:35

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-134"]Oh, sure and the loud click a moment ago wasn't the light coming on!
Did you get my email? If you don't want it, do you know someone who
might?
Stephen

Duke of url 2007-12-18 16:18:44

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-135"]Now that is just downright wrong. It's the ciggie smokers who suck it
down into their lungs, not the pipists. The only pipe smokers I've
ever known who inhaled were the ones who shifted from cigarettes to
pipes after decades - they couldn't break the inhaling habit.

Duke of url 2007-12-18 16:18:45

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-136"]Is it wrappped around a bottle of whisky?

Madra dubh 2007-12-20 09:48:41

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-137"]Somewhat like a penguin, eh?

Madra dubh 2007-12-20 09:48:42

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-138"]email was sent out early this morning.
I'm intrigued.
(And the Cherokee group called themselves the "Chickamauga", if memory
serves)

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-140"]I was thinking more like someone who needed a case of Preparation H .
That too, is a Belgian thing.

Duke of url 2007-12-21 23:20:59

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-141"]heh

Elainefromdrak 2007-12-26 12:53:30

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-142"]The only thing I feel 'sure' about is that it's Chickamunga instead of
Chickamauga.
Elaine

S im mac liam 2008-01-24 07:44:01

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-143"]Considering the level of spelling error on that page, I'm not even sure
of that.
--
Saint S im mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99

Elainefromdrak 2008-01-25 18:23:58

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-144"]You may be right!

Elaine

Duke of url 2008-01-26 07:18:36

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-145"]Well apparently it has something to do with using beans... I think
we'd best leave it alone, as you say...

Rick 2008-01-30 09:44:10

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-146"]Oh, and like you would know, you ignorant savage! ~( ;-0

Jim stewart 2008-01-30 14:17:06

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-147"]Requsition, my good man requsition....
Sargent give that man a reciept
Script, not greenbacks....
Speeking of 'backs cut us a few pigs, too.
He's part indian, so we won't burn the place.
Jim Stewart

Rick 2008-01-31 07:07:35

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-148"]Well, if they are insiders, *don't* trade with them!

Duke of url 2008-01-31 11:46:41

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-149"]Grroooaannn...

Madra dubh 2008-02-01 02:11:08

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-150"]Isn't it time we ran those traders out of town anyway?
'Bout all they ever brought was liquor and disease and some ratty looking
beads and blankets.

Rick 2008-02-04 18:03:21

[the_ad_placement id="add-en-post-151"]What? It's sound advice and *some* folks obviously don't know it.
Look at Martha.
She was artsy. Maybe some of the artsy poetical types can use the
advice.
Just trying to help out here, cause that's the kind of guy I am...